antidemocratic

adjective

Definition of antidemocraticnext
as in totalitarian

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Recent Examples of antidemocratic His aggressively antidemocratic ideas have found a receptive audience among powerful conservatives, including Vice President-elect JD Vance. — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025 Yet just a few months later, the European Union offered Georgia candidate status, a massive boost to the prestige of a government that had already demonstrated its antidemocratic instincts. — Christian Caryl, Foreign Affairs, 26 Dec. 2024 Amazon workers in 20 countries, including the United States, are staging strikes on Black Friday to protest what the organizing labor union describes as anti-worker and antidemocratic practices. — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024 This despite Orbán’s unsavory reputation inside the European Union due to his antidemocratic behavior and hostility toward Ukraine. — Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 13 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for antidemocratic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for antidemocratic
  1. totalitarian
  2. oppressive
  3. authoritarian
  4. autocratic
  5. magisterial
  6. tyrannical
Adjective
  • Eight decades later, that verdict was renewed when another group of totalitarian antisemites put on a grotesque display.
    — Sean Durns, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The world has become a series of separate totalitarian quarantine zones and independent settlements, with a thriving black market and a rebel militia known as the Fireflies making life complicated for the survivors.
    — Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 10 Mar. 2025
Definition of totalitarian
Adjective
  • Cryptocurrency mixers can be essential tools for individuals who value privacy, including those living under oppressive regimes, journalists, whistleblowers, and businesses that require confidentiality in their transactions.
    — Becca Bratcher, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Coventry became the minister of sports a year after the coup that removed Mugabe in the new administration of current President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Mugabe’s vice president who rights groups say has continued many of Mugabe’s oppressive policies.
    — Gerald Imray, Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025
Definition of oppressive
Adjective
  • The obvious split between a democratic Taiwan and an authoritarian China is an uncontestable reality and is part of the international consensus.
    — Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Since taking office just a few weeks ago, President Trump has rapidly depleted the reservoir of America’s soft power with an authoritarian bent and astonishing speed.
    — Penny Abeywardena, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Definition of authoritarian
Adjective
  • Furthermore, although Washington has conceived of its autocratic adversaries as a cohesive unit, almost all their cooperation has been through bilateral channels.
    — Christopher S. Chivvis, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Ukraine may not be a beacon of democracy, but today's Russian government is the definition of an autocratic regime.
    — Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
Definition of autocratic
Adjective
  • There have been pure hammerings inflicted by a magisterial opponent, there have been vain attempts to keep the score down, there have been have-a-go failures and defensive mishaps.
    — George Caulkin, The Athletic, 15 Feb. 2025
  • The scholar Stewart Patrick, an expert on international institutions, examines this history in detail in his magisterial book, The Best Laid Plans.
    — Michael J. Mazarr, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2018
Definition of magisterial
Adjective
  • The film, based on Georges Simenon’s 1950 novel, stars Depardieu as a celebrated but tyrannical actor grappling with personal and professional decline.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2025
  • What is the character of those who bear false witness and favor Russia’s tyrannical lies over Ukrainians’ unalienable rights?
    — Mark Sandy, TIME, 14 Mar. 2025
Definition of tyrannical

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